with trend of using blackberry in Indonesia, i come to above question…is it worth to be a blackberry operator ?

well i don’t really have a data on how much an operator need to invenst to their system to be able to implement blackberry system, i also don’t have data on how much the operator gives RIM for service royalty. but for sure it must bu not cheap…

now let’s try to take a look on operator side :
+ how much monthly investment paid by subcribers to have unlimited access to the internet ? i predict around Rp 180k
+ how many users use blackberry services ? i believe it is around 100k subs (Indosat state they have araund 80k subs)
+ so let’s calculate the rough revenue, Rp 180.000 x 100.000 = Rp 18.000.000.000 / month a very small reveneu for an operator, let’s also not to forget that from that revenue operator still need to share this with RIM for the royalty

so is it worth to be a blackberry operator ?
+ well if you see that from the revenue side, of course not…
+ but if you see it from other side which is brand image, i would say YES it really worth it especially if you are CDMA operator since no CDMA operator in Indonesia that have implement Blackberry services. so to capture public attention, become first CDMA operator that implement Blackberry services will create a WOW effect in market thus will increase the brand awareness for that operator

how about market in Indonesia ?
as  Indonesia is islands country where in certain area communication is still a problem i would say for the next 5 years most of the subs will come from big cities only such as : Jakarta, Surabaya, Palembang, Medan, Jogja, Bandung, etc…

how long will it take to make Indonesian people aware with and use data services ?
+ i would say 15 – 20 years…10 years is the optimistic prediction…

sudah pernah liat branding XL yang baru ? gak baru2 amat sih tapi menurut gw cara yang mereka lakukan bener2 inovatif. outlet tidak hanya ditawarkan uang saja (aspek materi) supaya mau memajang banner mereka tapi sudah mulai masuk ke aspek psikologis. caranya ? coba perhatiin branding (banner) XL ini…

seperti yang bisa diliat banner XL memasukkan foto pemilik outlet interesting approach, laen daripada yang laen. dan sejauh ini baru XL yang melakukan ini.

yah secara biaya tentu saja biaya pembuatan banner akan menjadi lebih tinggi dari yang biasa tapi yang perlu diperhatikan adalah aspek psikologis dari banner ini. di tengah ketatnya persaingan antar operator, turun menurunkan banner adalah hal biasa antara satu operator dengan operator lainnya. Tidak jarang operator memberikan insentif agar outletnya mau di full branding.
Fenomena ini bisa dibaca dengan baik oleh XL dan solusi mereka pun simple untuk mencegah banner yang telah mereka pasang diturunkan oleh operator lain yaitu :

memasukkan foto pemilik outlet di banner tersebut

hasilnya ?

pemiliki toko akan menolak ketika banner XL yang ada foto dirinya itu diturunkan untuk diganti dengan banner operator lain yang tidak ada fotonya (walau mungkin dengan imbalan uang).

menarik bukan pendekatan XL ini ? uang yang dikeluarkan sedikit lebih banyak tapi efek yang ditimbulkan jauh lebih bagus

i have use firefox as my primary web browser. i use some shortcut to fasten my browsing activities…
here are some tips and tricks, maybe can be useful for all of you :

• type an address and press ctrl + enter will automatically add www. and .com to the web address
• type an address and press shift + enter will automaticaly add www. and .net to the web address
• type an address and press ctrl + shift + enter will automaticall add www. and .org to the web address
• press ctrl + T will open a new tab
• press ctrl + shift + T will reopen last closed tab
• press ctrl + [1-9] to shift between tabs
• press alt + scroll mouse up and down to scrolling page line by line.
• press space bar to page down
• press shift + space bar to page up
• press ctrl + scroll up / down ot press ctrl + +/- to resize font
• drag a hyperlink to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab
• drag highlighted word to the search bar to bring you to the Google search result page
• drag the highlighted word to the address bar + Enter to perform a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search

are you using gmail as your email provider ? do you know this hidden tricks ?

• Append a plus (“+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
• Insert one or several dots (“.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com.

i really love the first trick, it allow me to identify all incoming emails from groups / certain email simply by define a meaningful name after the + sign when i register and then create rule based on the name after + sign. as example : i want to join a .net groups, so this what would i do :

• I register my email, i can choose myemail+net@gmail.com. the email itself will still be received in your myemail@gmail.com, no need to create a new name. don’t worry
• create a folder to store the email, example : .net
• create a filter that will move every email that is sent to  myemail+net@gmail.com to a predefined folder (.net).

voila…now i can organize my email better. thanks google…

*you can read the full article here

have you ever questioning this question ?

how many operators in indonesia ?
which operator that have most popularity in indonesia ?
how to measure popularity using WWW ?

well if you have those questions then you must read my presentation* : Indonesian Operators Popularity in WWW for the answers.

For this analysis i use three web services : Google, Google Labs, Alexa and Wikipedia. Some of the analysis results about popularity will be shown here. Here are some of the results :

GSM OPERATORS POPULARITY

CDMA OPERATORS POPULARITY

ALL OPERATORS POPULARITY

TRENDS FOR GSM

TRENDS FOR CDMA

*Please mention that this research was completely based on my personal opinions.

a friend of mine ask about how to download a Google book..
i answer his question instantly : Save As ? oops…didn’t work…Google smart enough to handle this, so i think other solution….one minute, two minutes, three minutes…AHAAA…!!! i know the answer (umm.. a trick actually), i tried it and it works…. do you want to know how ? here are the steps :

- install a screen capture program (i use SnagIt 8.0)
- choose  "Scrolling Window (Web Page)" capture profiles
- select the window (choose to view the book as Full Screen) and press "Capture"
- let this software do the works...
- save the result as jpg

done…now you can read the book using any photo manager software (i use ACDSee 9.0) .you just open the image, zoom in and use your mouse to scroll the image up and down. a beautiful life isn’t it ?

i use my friend laptop to bug fixing his code. it is lenovo…

i start to put my hand in the keyboard and type something. i press page up, page down, arrows key and then start to realize there is something wrong with lenovo keyboard….

IT IS HARD TO DO TEXT HIGHLIGHTING / BLOCKING WITH LENOVO

instead of using CTRL – SHIFT – END / ARROW, you should press CTRL – SHIFT – FN – END / ARROW…??? i look the layout again and start to feel very uncomfortable with the layout. this is a non programmer keyboard layout…!!!  so instead , i use mouse to do text blocking / highlighting. from what i saw, lenovo trying to save some spaces in the keyboard to add speaker at the side of the keyboard, but the result was very annoying. i would say NO to use lenovo for programming…

ooo i really love my Compaq….

I just read SWA magazine about best CEO. umm my CEO is there   sometimes i wonder how they works when they are on my current level, impossible they become CEO without start everything from zero rights ?

well i read the magazine page to page and suddenly i saw one interesting article. it discuss about type of employees. here is the diagram :

and the explanations :

• Truly Loyal : somehow the people in this category feels connected to the company. so they won’t leave for a long period of time
• Accessible : they don’t look for new job for now but if a better opportunity coming they will grab it. of course after deep analysis about the opportunity and the risk
• Trapped : this type don’t have a choice to move although they don’t like the job. they cannot move either because lack of skill, under certain contract that makes them have to stay or other reason
• High Risk : peoples in this type are actively looking for new job

According to the types above, i would say that i am the Accessible type.. god don’t let me be the trapped one, umm but if they offer a very good remuneration, i don’t mind to be trapped…

how about you ?

hi..my name is tommy wahyudi. i work for a telecommunication company in indonesia as a sales automation supervisor. as you can see, sales ? yeah i automate everything related to system in sales.

o really ? umm basically not, i just gave an idea, write a business requirements and then pass it to IT…a simple life isn’t it  ? nahh…you’re wrong, it is as complicated as write a program because you’re dealing with people with no IT background and one zombie mindset :

SELL…SELL…SELL…

and then there you go,  ask them to use your system. it really hard part unless you can convince them that it will useful for them. so basically a typical of sales person when dealing with system are :

- if it isn’t easy to use, sales people won’t use it
- if it’s easy to use, but sales people aren’t getting value, they won’t use it

hard isn’t it ? beside above responsibilty, i also did a little code. i use C#, Nhibernate, SubSonic, Sharepoint, Reporting Service, Analysis Service, Sql Server 2005, Office 2007. if i code then i prefer a simple one, the one that use code generator or template. why ? because like what i say before…

I hate coding…but i live from it…

so in this blog you’ll find how to deal with sales people and what technology that they need, especially in telecommunication industry…